Jennifer Reese

This is a delightful read! Her failures -- recounted with humor -- are very funny. Harold's been reading bits of this, and he's nit usually a food reader, and Michelle had me read to her from it a few times, so it's been broadly popular in the family. One of the big surprises for me was her real understanding if,and sympathy for, all the different pulls on someone trying to cook for a busy family. I knew she was a kindred spirit when she described grocery shopping and being torn by the competing pulls of convenience, ethics, health, environmentalism, and more. I also loved her account if how KFC on the sofa with a dvd can produce more warm family memories than absolutely perfect (and absolutely exhausting) homemade fried chicken. She hasn't inspired me to a lot of scratch cooking I wasn't already doing, but I was amused, intrigued, and supported by her stories of extreme kitchen diy.… (mere)